Ball-bearing for vehicles.



Patented Sept. 26, I899.

A. L. CA R'LEY. BALL BEARING ,FOR VEHICLES.

(Application med Mar. 27, 1999.

(No Model.)

' WITNESSES l of [exam aer r/g ATTORNEYS.

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ALEXANDER L. GARLEY, OF SYRACUSE, NEl/V YORK.

I, BALL-BEARING F OR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 210.633,?98, dated September 26, 1899. Application filed Marcl127,1899. Serial No 710,637. (No model.)

nection with the accompanying drawings, is a" full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to ball-bearings for vehicles. I

My object is to provide a bearing having two sets of balls in parallel planes around a cylindrical axle, said balls having their respective bearings of unequal radii and adj usted to their bearings by means of a cone fitting over the axle and adjusted simultaneously to both bearings by a locking-screw within the shaft, all being inclosed by a flanged nut screwed into the head of'the hub, which operates to prevent dust or grit getting into the bearings.

It is constructed as follows, reference being bad to the accom pan yingdrawings,in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a'cyole-wheel hub having my double ball-bearing at each end. Fig. 2 is a like view of one end thereof, showing the cone, lock-nut, and inclosing nut in detached positions. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on line a; min Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a like view on line y y in Fig. 2.

A is a vehicle-hub having enlarged ends 2 and spoke-flanges 3.- A cup 4 is removably seated in each end of the hub, having an inward flange 5,'providedwith a marginal ballretaininglip, substantially as shown and having also a shoulder 6, against which a ring 7 abuts, said ring having upon its inner edge a ball-retaining lip, substantially as shown. The shoulder 6 and ring 7 create two ballchambers, the balls 8 being in the inner chamber betweenthe flange 5-and ring 7 and the balls 9 in the one between said ring and the end ring or closure 10, which is suitably inserted or secured in the hub end exteriorto said cup. An axle 11 is inserted through said cups, and 12 12 are cones loose upon said axle, one within each cup, and furnishing the inward bearing for both sets of balls, one cone abutting against the shoulder on the axle. The outer end of said axle is bored out and interiorly threaded to receive, first, the locking-screw 13, provided with a stem 14, and,

secondly, to receive the tubular adj listingnut 15, which fits over the stem of the locking-nut and bears against the cone, whereby when the cone is adjusted the locking-screw can be screwed up against the inner end of the outer nut to lock it. Flanged and ex teriorly-threaded cap-nuts 16 17 are screwed into the ends of the hub, the nut 16 inclosing a suitable packing-ring l8, and the nut 17 closing that end of the hub entirely. In case this bearing is used on a cycle then two nuts 16 would be used, the axle projecting through both of them. I The adjustment of one cone will equally adjust the other; One set of balls-will do the work if the other becomes disabled. All end thrusts of the axle is eliminated. The conebearing and ball-chambers of unequal radii enable me to use balls of equal size in either.

It will be seen that the lock-screw remains bear inwardly, and said balls having a suitable mou n'ting, of a locking-screw in the bore of said'axle, a nut screwed into said axle-bore and bearing against said cone, and means to cause said looking-screw to bear against the inner end of said adj listing-screw and lock it.

2. In a ball-bearing, the combination with an axle bored out and interiorly' threaded, a

cone against which the balls of the bearing 7 cone movableupon said shaft,'and the balls In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 13th day of March, 1899.

I ALEXANDER L. OARLEY. flitiiesses: MILDRED M. NOTT,

HOWARD P. DENIsONJ 

